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07-10-2014, 04:14 PM #41
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07-17-2014, 12:50 PM #42
at least 51 years! I saw something when I was much younger in a book. So I bought a book that taught me how to crochet. I'm still learning new tricks today!
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07-17-2014, 03:22 PM #43
Barbara, when I was young, about 6 or 7, at a family reunion my great Aunts tried to teach me how to knit and crochet and in a week's time declared me stupid and a dunce, incapable of learning either. I had undiagnosed severe dyslexia (diagnosed when I started college, of all things) but I did not pick up a hook until 2 years ago, when I was 52. It has come slowly and hard to me and my dyslexia still bothers me with it, I do a lot of frogging. And now, just short of 55 by a few days, I have started knitting too and find it difficult at the moment, but am persisting. Even if all I can do are the simple things knitting, I can do hats, fingerless mitts, scarves and afghans with my hook but cannot design my own things. But the fact that I can do it makes me proud. I only wish the great aunts were still around so I could show them!
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07-17-2014, 04:40 PM #44
You do beautiful work.
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07-17-2014, 04:41 PM #45
Fifty six years. Very thankful to my mother for teaching me. I was eight.
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07-18-2014, 05:01 AM #46
You should be proud-your persistence paid off. Adults should be more aware of how hurtful words can be to a young person. I am glad you did not let them discourage you-crocheting is a wonderful pastime. Good luck!
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07-18-2014, 03:36 PM #47
you should be proud!!! don't ever give up learning a new skill no matter the challenges.! You should be very proud of yourself.
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07-19-2014, 09:39 AM #48
My grandmother taught me how to crochet doilies 53 years ago. That makes me old and feel it too. LOL. My mother taught me how to knit but in high school, my best friends mom and dad taught me a lot more about knitting more complicated items. I also do embroidery and cross stitch.
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07-24-2014, 10:43 PM #49
Total of almost 7 months. I'm officially addicted and am doing very well in my humble opinion. I taught myself by watching youtube videos starting last Oct. I can read & follow most written patterns now & am understanding charts, too. I love all the online free information & great people who spend a lot of time teaching people to crochet! I love to share my work to encourage others & get feedback on it, and to get ideas from others who have more experience than me. I've got a FB page, Pinterest Boards, and a Google+ page w/my crochet work posted on them (& other handcrafts on a couple of those). I took some months off of life in general though this spring, so no crochet during those months, to pack, move, (3X unplanned with one requiring belongings to be put in storage for 2 weeks), such a long/sad/awful story that I'm trying to forget (2014 has been cruel to us here, but we as Christians prevail no matter what thx to our Lord), so I had big plans to be much further ahead by now but a lot of time was taken from me. Then I had to recuperate from over-doing it so badly since I'm disabled (a lot of family helped us a lot, my husband also overdid it since it went on for so long & I sadly had to do as little as possible), but what I did messed me up terribly and I had to get extra physical therapy & the new symptoms overdoing it caused me are horrific.
Now I have a new heart condition where the right side valve can't keep up w/the left side valve to properly pump out fluid from feet & lower legs so I retain dangerous amounts of fluids that can cause congestive heart failure on top of all of my existing health issues that try to control my life. I've had fluid retention problems since it almost killed me at 19 during my 1st pregnancy. My son & I almost both died and I had an emergency c-section, so I know how to control it with meds and drinking plenty of liquids.
Then my right leg locked up in the back of my knee last week out of the blue & I can barely walk with my walker w/wheels & seat. I've never not been able to walk and there's a lot of pain in that area for some reason, but I sure hope to find something we can fix going on there. I'm seeing 2 more specialists to find the causes, a cardiologist & an orthopedic dr. I spend way too much time seeing dr's, and I swear they let you suffer alone a lot. But I have one good one out of the bunch that helps the most, and cares, too, surprise! I desperately need crochet to focus my mind and forget my miseries, and it works very well. My fingers cramp a lot when i knit so crochet works best for me. I'm sooo glad I found crochet because I'm like the lady who wrote that book, with crochet saving her life. It's a way of life for me forever, and I've done crafts all of my life so I mean that literally.
I'm happy to be a part of this community & hope to get to know many of you! I thought I'd take a few minutes here to explain my crochet experience. I hope that's all right. If not, you can move or delete my comment.
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07-25-2014, 01:25 AM #50
I learned to crochet about 1968. My mother tried to teach me before that but the lessons did not stick. A co-worker finally taught me.